Travels in Mesopotamia, Volumen1H. Colburn, 1827 - 571 páginas |
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... Nisibeen , across the Plain of Sinjar 253 CHAP . XIV . From the Plain of Sinjar , by Romoila , to Mousul 271 CHAP . XV . Description of Mousul CHAP . XVI . Visit to the Ruins of Nineveh , and Journey from Mousul to the River Lycus CHAP ...
... Nisibeen , across the Plain of Sinjar 253 CHAP . XIV . From the Plain of Sinjar , by Romoila , to Mousul 271 CHAP . XV . Description of Mousul CHAP . XVI . Visit to the Ruins of Nineveh , and Journey from Mousul to the River Lycus CHAP ...
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... Nisibeen 14 Caravan rushing , by night , to a deep and rapid River 15 Perspective of a Vaulted Bazār at Mousul ... White 227 ... Byfield 253 ... ... Bonner 271 Lee 285 ... ... ... 16 Bridge of Boats across the Tigris , and View of the ...
... Nisibeen 14 Caravan rushing , by night , to a deep and rapid River 15 Perspective of a Vaulted Bazār at Mousul ... White 227 ... Byfield 253 ... ... Bonner 271 Lee 285 ... ... ... 16 Bridge of Boats across the Tigris , and View of the ...
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... Nisibeen . I now repaired to the dwelling of the Syrian Patriarch , and from hence we despatched messengers to the villages on the plain , to ascertain precisely at what hour the caravan departed from thence , what route they intended ...
... Nisibeen . I now repaired to the dwelling of the Syrian Patriarch , and from hence we despatched messengers to the villages on the plain , to ascertain precisely at what hour the caravan departed from thence , what route they intended ...
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... Nisibeen , and doing all in his power to render our situation agreeable . JUNE 30th . — After a night of imperfect repose , being hourly disturbed by the breaking loose of the horses , and their fighting with each other , we began to ...
... Nisibeen , and doing all in his power to render our situation agreeable . JUNE 30th . — After a night of imperfect repose , being hourly disturbed by the breaking loose of the horses , and their fighting with each other , we began to ...
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... Nisibeen , mention is made , in the Persian history of the Sassanian kings , by Mirkhond . It is there said , that Nou- shirvan the Just , or Kesra , entered the province of Jezeereh , the tract comprised between the Tigris and ...
... Nisibeen , mention is made , in the Persian history of the Sassanian kings , by Mirkhond . It is there said , that Nou- shirvan the Just , or Kesra , entered the province of Jezeereh , the tract comprised between the Tigris and ...
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Aleppo ancient appearance Arabs Arbela arch Arrian Babylon Bagdad banks bazārs Belus Benjamin of Tudela bricks building built called camels caravan caravanserai castle centre chief chiefly Christians colour court Ctesiphon D'Anville Desert Diarbekr distance dress dwellings east eastern Edessa edifice Egypt encamped Euphrates feet fifty gardens gate going ground Hadjee halted height Herodotus Hillah hills horses hour hundred inhabitants inscriptions journey khan Koords l'Euphrate le Tigre Mardin masonry Memoir Mesopotamia miles minarets Mohammedan mosque mounds mountains Mousul nearly night Nineveh Nisibeen Nisibis observed Orfah palace party Pasha passed Persian piastres plain portion present qu'il remains Rennel Rich river road Roman ruins says seemed seen Seleucia Sheikh side Sinjar square stadia stone Strabo stream summit sun-set Syria Tartars temple tent thought thousand Tigre Tigris tomb towers town travellers Turkish Turks village Wahabis walls whole Yezeedis Yézidis
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Página 417 - Chaldees' excellency, Shall be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah. It shall never be inhabited, Neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation : Neither shall the Arabian pitch tent there ; Neither shall the shepherds make their fold there. But wild beasts of the desert shall lie there ; And their houses shall be full of doleful creatures ; And owls shall dwell there, And satyrs shall dance there.
Página 303 - Thou hast had pity on the gourd, for the which thou hast not laboured, neither madest it grow; which came up in a night, and perished in a night: and should not I spare Nineveh, that great city, wherein are more than sixscore thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand; and also much cattle?
Página 230 - The Son of man goeth as it is written of him : but woe unto that man by whom the Son of man is betrayed ! it had been good for that man if he had not been born. 25 Then Judas, which betrayed him, answered and said, Master, is it I? He said unto him, Thou hast said.
Página 70 - And Terah took Abram his son, and Lot the son of Haran his son's son, and Sarai his daughter-in-law, his son Abram's wife ; and they went forth with them from Ur of the Chaldees, to -go into the land of Canaan; and they came unto Haran, and dwelt there.
Página 428 - I will also make it a possession for the bittern, and pools of water: and I will sweep it with the besom of destruction, saith the Lord of Hosts.
Página 303 - The noise of a whip, and the noise of the rattling of the wheels, And of the pransing horses, and of the jumping chariots. The horseman lifteth up both the bright sword and the glittering spear: And there is a multitude of slain, and a great number of carcases ; And there is none end of their corpses ; they stumble upon their corpses...
Página 441 - Because of the wrath of the Lord it shall not be inhabited, but it shall be wholly desolate: every one that goeth by Babylon shall be astonished, and hiss at all her plagues.
Página 229 - When thou art bidden of any man to a wedding, sit not down in the highest room, lest a more honorable man than thou be bidden of him; and he that bade thee and him come and say to thee, ' Give this man place ;' and thou begin with shame to take the lowest room.
Página 309 - And he will stretch out his hand against the north, and destroy Assyria; and will make Nineveh a desolation, and dry like a wilderness. And flocks shall lie down in the midst of her, all the beasts of the nations: both the cormorant and the the bittern shall lodge in the upper lintels of it...
Página 19 - And he took butter, and milk, and the calf which he had dressed, and set it before them; and he stood by them under the tree, and they did eat.